The Mayor's Court was established at the incorporation of the City of Lancaster in 1818, and was composed of the mayor, recorder, and aldermen with powers and jurisdiction analogous to the Court of Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Oyer and Terminer, and Jail Delivery. It was abolished on 6 February 1849.
System of Arrangement
Organized by court term.
Arranged with general materials first, then constables reports, tavern licenses, un-numbered cases, and numbered cases.
Signers of Petition: Jacob Myers, George Haughman, J. H. Miller, O. B. Kaufman, John Ditlow, J. M. Johnston, R. E. Fahnestock, W. H. Spangler, William Hensler, S. G. Musser, J. Franklin Reigart, John K. Duchman, David Weidler, Elias Eby.
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Located on the corner of North Queen and Orange Streets, North West Ward.
April term.
Signers of petition: Jacob Myers, George Diller, Emanuel VanKanan, John G. Offner, Simon J. Young, S. G. Musser, John [Swint], A. S. Keller, J. C. Skiles, J. Gish, Henry E. Muhlenberg, Frederick Dern, Emanuel B. Kauffman, [ ] Kline.
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Signers of petition: John C. Mickle, Joseph Harnish, William [Rheem], Emanuel Shober, William Flory, Christian Brubaker, Thomas Ruth, Samuel Ruth, Charles Meckley, Jacob Kohn, John L. Sharp, Jacob Metzger.
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Signers of Petition: Michael Gochnauer, John Hoffman, Christian Brown, Jacob Acker, Samuel Snyder, Benjamin H. Kauffman, Jacob Schwar, John Hernly, John S. Kaufman, John Gochnauer, John Brubaker, William Wilig, John Stauffer, Tobias Miller, John S. Hostetter, John Landis, Robert Beard, Emanuel Shober.
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Signers of Petition: Emanuel Shober, David Sprickler, Jacob H. Kauffman, Henry Imhoff, Peter Swarr Jr., John Schauer, John Bostick, J. B. Brubaker, John Landis, George Kneisley, John Stauffer, Martin Stauffer Jr., Jacob Hershey, Samuel Parker, Henry M. Reigart, Andrew Kauffman, Jacob Myers.
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Signers of Petition: Jacob H. Kauffman, Peter Bell, [signature in German], J. B. Brubaker, C. P. Huber, Christian Brubaker, John Stauffer, Tobias M. Miller, George Kneisley, James Hollinger, John Bostick, John Schauer, Henry Imhoff, Sebastian Smith, David Gottshall, Joseph Gilbert.
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